New piece of Android spyware can record your phone calls

If you are still not convinced that mobile malware should be taken a bit more seriously, here is something that might make you have second thoughts about how secure your smartphone really is. The security experts over at CA Technologies have come across a new piece of Android spyware that can not only record phone conversations without the users knowledge, but can also silently upload them straight to a remote server.

Reportedly, the malware worked as intended when it was tested in a controlled environment – a pair of Android emulators were hooked up together over a simulated network. When a call was placed between them, the entire conversation was recorded in the form of an AMR file stored on the virtual device's microSD card. Further changes that the virus makes to the device's configuration make it possible for the stored files to be uploaded over to a remote server, which the alleged attacker is supposed to have access to.

It has been pointed out that this new piece of mobile malware is considerably more advanced than the rest of Android viruses that have been observed so far. Until now, the most that any malicious app could do in terms of spying on you was to log the time and duration of your phone calls in a simple text file, yet no malware capable of recording actual phone conversations had been reported prior to this case.

That being said, one should always be careful when downloading apps from dubious sources as there is no way to know how safe the software is exactly. It may sound disturbing, but chances are that we will be hearing more and more about malware threats targeted at smartphones from now on.

You'd thnk with a company like Google, crap like this would be relatively low. But noo, because Android is soo open and because Google's IT team and software guys are idiots if they can't even improve Android after all of these releases of yearly updates. Honestly, at least Apple patches this crap up well before it gets out of control. But no, Google sits on their rear ends and waits until the problems get worse before they finally do something just like they did when all of those malware apps got released on the market.

Go on ahead and thumb this down because then it'll just prove that I'm right and that Android fans are just going to backpedal with this.

No. You're completely wrong, but you're only trolling anyway. So even if I provide incontrovertible evidence that you're wrong (something I'm perfectly capable of doing) you'll still claim (without evidence or logic) that I'm wrong. Therefore there's no reason to find the necessary links and provide the explanations that prove you wrong. I'm not a fan of exercises in futility.

Throw out all the big words, trying to make yourself look smarter than you appear. But unless you can back up your bs claims that I'm wrong, which I am not, then you have absolutely nothing to claim on me. It's just like i predictable that Android fans would backpedal out of admitting that Android has severe security flaws.

Oh, and lol at "all the big words." Incontrovertible and futility are both words I regularly use when discussing such things as evidence and trying to prove (bad) trolls wrong. I'm sorry you don't have the cranial capacity to comprehend that someone else may simply have a greater vocabulary than you do.

The_Miz this is just now Android's turn. Every week or so we read Apple has a security hole, then Android. Then there is something else wrong with Android, then iOS. If you don't get my drift then just read this *** NO OS IS SECURE! ***. In a couple of weeks we will read something on Apple & the same BS arguments will continue. Please understand that once Windows Phone 7 takes off they TOO will have their security holes attacked. It's just the way the mind of the evil hacker/malware producer works. They want the next challenge & do for the sake of doing it. They don’t care what happens to you, they just want the thrill of being able to manipulate an OS, especially from the 2 most popular OS’s in the world. It’s the same thing every time one of these articles gets posted whether is from Apple’s behalf or Android’s.

I laugh when people put the "thumbs me down all you want" this mean you are annoyed by it so much. yet again you have no actual clue if Google is working on this issues or not because its not of your interest sorry try again

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So... what apps or phones have been affected by this world ending malware? Or is their just potential for this to be harmful? Or is this an just an article to get the trolls engaged feces-speak at your usual command?

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